[asterisk-biz] School on the web needs voip solution

[Stephane Bakhos]

I'm interested, can you tell me more about it?

On Wed, 6 May 2009, Suzanne Bowen wrote:

> Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 09:22:14 -0500
> From: Suzanne Bowen <suzanne at supertec.com>
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> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] School on the web needs voip solution
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> Correction, and please accept my apology... Michel emailed and said the
> original Tinyurl is incomplete. Correction:
> http://tinyurl.com/schoolvoiprequest.
>
> Suzanne Bowen
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Suzanne Bowen <suzanne at supertec.com> wrote:
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>> A school on the web is searching for a voip solution. The full description
>> of what is needed is at http://tinyurl.com/schoolvoip ... original URL
>> http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/2009/05/monetize_your_ip_communications_for_a_net_school_group.html.
>> Anyone responding who can provide this solution, I will put you in touch
>> with the third party requesting.
>>
>> More information I received this morning:
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>> For this project, the K-12 teachers would not be available from 8-4 pm. So
>> most of the call traffic would be between 4-9 pm.
>>
>> To give you an idea of the scope, my friend just finished training 1400
>> public school teachers in El Salvador. They have no plan for continuing
>> education. The idea is to connect these 1400 people by way of a membership
>> and a pay-as-you-go fee scheme.
>>
>> At best, they could call in and be connected immediately with one (or
>> possible more) teachers in the same network. This way they could talk to one
>> another on the phone in English.
>>
>> At the very least, If no one were available, they could have the
>> opportunity to do a short listening and interactive learning activity based
>> on (several thousand) mp3 podcasts which they could access and then record
>> their responses. They would like to be able to save their responses as a
>> .wav file.
>>
>> The Salvadorian education system has more than 40,000 public school
>> teachers.
>>
>> The dream is to imagine such a system where people access native speaking
>> voices on a variety of topics and then can either talk about them directly
>> with another teacher, or respond in voicemail that could be saved for others
>> to review.
>>
>> There would be a fully commercial application for this as well. But the
>> idea is to do it with the public sector as a pilot. My friend thanks for
>> your interest. Again the original request is at
>> http://tinyurl.com/schoolvoip.
>>
>>  (One final item, not related... I want to thank Fred Posner of
>> TeamForrest, Cox Communications, Skype, Digium, DIDX, Comtel-Networks, WSRE
>> PBS, Max Glucksmann, Alan Pesatty, Steven Cayona, and Paul Turso Deane for
>> helping with the linkingarms.org nonprofit telethon using open source
>> technologies. We'll do a case study soon and post to TMCNET and voip-info.)
>>
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